Biography of Private Albert Ash, (242014)
1st/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Formerly 28850 – Kings Royal Rifles
Died 26th October 1917
Soldier
- Name: Thomas Albert E Ash
- Date of birth: 1884
- Place of Birth: Dyke, Lincolnshire, England
- Date of Birth Registration: April-June 1884
- Place of Birth Registration: Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
Father
- Name: William Ash
- DOB: 1836
- Place of Birth: Dyke, Lincolnshire, England
- Occupation: Farmer
Mother
- Name: Emma Christian
- DOB: 1844
- Place Of Birth: Morton, Lincolnshire, England
- Marriage: 1873 Bourne District
Siblings: (Name), (DOB), (POB)
- William Ash, 1874, Dyke
- Richard Evelyn Ash, 1876, Dyke
- Elizabeth Ash, 1878, Dyke
- James Christian Ash, 1881, Dyke
- Thomas Albert Ebenezer Ash, 1884, Dyke
- Joseph Henry Ash, 1887, Dyke
- Frederick Edward Ash, 1889, Dyke (Died 1895 age 6)
Census
- 1891: Albert is living with his parents in Dyke, Lincolnshire
- 1901: Albert is living with his parents in Dyke, Lincolnshire
- 1911: Albert is living with his mother in Dyke, Lincolnshire. The census gives him an age of 26 and he is listed as a farmer
Relatives in services
- None found
Marriage
- No marriage for Albert has been found and because of his age we can assume that he never had the opportunity to marry.
Newspaper Mentions
- WAr Office Weekly Casualty List December 18th 1917
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NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS
Ash 242014 A. (Dyke)
Military Records
Attestation Papers
- None found
Soldier’s Died In The Great War
- These records show that Albert Ash, 242014, 1st/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers was killed in action on 26th October 1917 in the Western European Theatre in France and Flanders.
Pension Records
- None found
Effects Left Too
- Mother Emma
Medals
- The British Medal
- The Victory Medal
Memorials
- UK:
- Bourne, Roll of Honour in Bourne Abbey Church
Bourne War Memorial in the Memorial Gardens
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
- In memory of Private Albert Ash, 242014, 1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers who died on 26 September 1917.
- Remembered with honour, Tyne Cot Memorial.
- Panel 19 to 23 and 162.
© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials
© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials
Military Service Timeline
- Enlisted in Lincoln
- This is ongoing research and will be posted when completed
Sources
- WW1 Soldier’s Records (www.ancestry.co.uk)
- British Newspaper Archive.
- Fold 3
- Find My Past
- Genealogist
- Forces War Records
- British Army Service Numbers
- War Gratuity Calculator
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- National Archives – Battalion War Diaries
- General Registry Office